Spinning-wheel



umani) sTATEs Parana orrion.

LYMAN WIGHT, OF BENTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

SPINNING-WHEEL.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 14,482, dated March 18, 1856.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, LYMAN WIGHT, of Benton, in the county of Luzerne andState of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement inSpinning-Wheels for Spinning and Twisting Vool Tow and Cotton, which Ishall call the Pendulum Spinner; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full and eXact description of the construction andoperation of the same.

No. 1 in the accompanying drawings is a bed piece or bench.

No. 2, is a post the lower end passing down through the end of bench No.1, forming one leg of the bench and supporting at its top a frame towhich the pendulum is attached. The object of the pendulum is to carryto and from the operator a spindle on which a thread may be drawn outand twisted.

No. 8 is a sliding bar, one end passing through p ost No. 2, and issupported near the other end by passing through the top of a small postN o. 4, rising from bench No. 1. At the end of said bar the large orprincipal band wheel N o. 6, is hung. The sliding of this bar tightensor slacks band No. 10, and is held fast by a pin in post No. 4.

Nos. 5 5 are two legs in the end of bench No. 1. These two and the oneformed by post No. 2 passing down through the bench form the three legsof the'bench.

No. 16, is the pendulum rod. At the lower end is a cross piece N o. 7,to which the spindle No. 2O is hung. Said crosspiece is made to slide upand down on the rod to tighten band No. 13.

No. 12, is a quarter circle of iron fastened to the cap piece of theframe No. 17, on which a cord rests running down to the foot piece No.14, for the purpose of driving the spindle from the operator when thefoot is pressed against the foot piece. At No. 9, on the section of thedrawing which is placed at the top of the paper of the new drafts, maybe seen the whir and pulley on which the two bands of wheel rest whichgive motion to the spindle No. 20. The frame at the top of post No. 2,is composed of a cross piece N o. 18, fastened to the top of post No. 2,in the ends of which are gudgeons and two short posts Nos. 19-19 thelower ends of which have their bearings on said gudgeons, so that theycan turn on them backward and forward to let the pendulum rod which isfastened to the cappiece vibrate.

N o. 17, is a cappiece fastened to the top of posts'Nos. 19-19, andprojects over at one end far enough to receive the pendulum rod and givespace for the whir and pulley No. 9, to play between the pendulum rodand short post No. 19.

No. 8, is a ball of wool attached to the cappiece N o. 17, and is alittle inclined forward for the purpose of balancing the spindle frompost No. 2 where it would naturally rest up into the operators lap.

My wheel operates as follows viz. By turning the principal band wheelNo. 6, on which band N o. 10, rests gives motion to the whir No. 9,around which it passes, and also to the pulley on the end of said whir,on which band N o. 13, rests which runs around a small vwhir on spindleNo. 20, giving speed to the spindle. The attendant with roll in handsits down in front of wheel N o. 6, with the face toward post No.v

2, which brings the post near the foot piece No. 14, splices the roll toa thread on spindle No. 20, and by pressing the foot on the foot piecedrives the spindle from the operator and draws out the thread,' and byturning band wheel No. 6, gives speed to the spindle which twists thethread. Y

The advantages of my wheel are as follows: One advantage is that athread can be drawn out easier by a vibrating pendulum than by acarriage and head on friction rollers as is done in the case of thehorizontal spinner which was patented some ten or eleven years ago.Another advantage is that it occupies only about half the room when notin operation that the horizontal spinner does. Another advantage is thedistance between the pulley on the end of whir No. 9, and the whir onthe spindle being some three or four feet thus causing band j No. 13 tolap farther around the whir on the spindle consequently itdoes notrequire to be so tight as in other wheels. And thus it operates easierthan any other wheel within my knowledge. Another advantage that itcosts only about half to make it that it Wheel to a vibrating pendulum,and operdoes to make the horizontal and but little ating the samesubstantially in the manner more than the common hand Wheel. and for thepurpose set forth.

Havinfr thus described the construction 5 and operition of my improvedWheel, What LYMAN WIGHT I claim as my invention and desire to se-Witnesses: cure by Letters Patent is, J. M. SEAMAN,

Attaching the spindle of a hand spinning DAVID N. KENNEDY.

